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As the topic is really not Delta-specific, I am moving this Thread to the TravelBuzz Forum.
Obscure2k
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One time I was flying DSM to LAS and just outside of vegas the pilot comes on and says "to the left you'll see lake mead, and two valleys over on the right is area 51.......don't look" cracked me up pretty good.

I was flying into Connecticut one fall, and all we could see from the plane was nothing but clouds. Then, we broke through the clouds and the New England fall colors were like a brilliant colored carpet under the plane. The entire plane was filled with "Ooohhh. Ahhhhhh."

No need for a pilot comment. It was a stunning sight after miles of nothing but white.

On a recent Seattle flight from Detroit, there was pretty ugly fog blanketing the airport and it was down to a single runway.

The mitigation was for us to head south of the airport to Olympia or so, then turn around and head north to the airport again.

The copilot made an announcement about Mount Rainier - first announcing it for passengers on the left side of the aircraft, and then getting some chuckles by announcing it again for passengers on the right after we did our U-turn to line up for landing.

The best part was that one of the flight attendants seemed just as excited as the passengers to look out the window to see it, which made me ^

No wonder I had such a restful afternoon, seeing that the planes were taking off to the east during this afternoon's rainstorm (I live just south of the western end of runway 25L).

What you saw was, indeed, the old LAX terminal. It can also be viewed by cars driving on I-105 west of the 405 Fwy.

Vatican City

On landing at LGW one time on DL, the pilot was very excited to point out the bridge he was about to drive under (only time he had ever driven a plane under a bridge!).

I think it's fair to say that pax were not quite so enthralled...

[QUOTE=rcbarton;14961699 ... and remarked that to the right of the plane, behind the fed-ex planes is the old Los Angeles International World Airport terminal and that legend has it that the final scene of Casablanca was filmed there.... [/QUOTE]

Wasn't the Long Beach airport used for that?

(Legends change...)

Bob H

I like that one. ^

I flew to SEA a few weeks ago on Alaksa Airlines and saw Mt. Rainier, and the pilot pointed it out, too.

I like it when the pilot points out things of interest, as long as it's not too often (and not during "lights out", obviously).

Those of you on the left can see the lights of Las Vegas. And on the right side of the plane.....absolutely nothing!

Flying a few years back from s Florida to Atlanta on a perfectly clear day up the east Fla coast Pilot anounces we have to alter course about 40 miles inland because the space shuttle is launching that day

As we are about at cruise level over Orlando, he points out the space center way to the right and those on the right can make out the spacecraft still sitting on the pad

About thirty seconds later there's a commotion on the entire right side of the plane The launch pad is hidden by smoke, then a small pencil of fire emerges through the cloud moving upward In less than two minutes it's above us and climbing fast

By the time we were past so was the shuttle

Turns out it was one of the "classified" military shuttle launches which meant the actual time was withheld until the last minute We couldn't have planned it it any closer if we had known the time in advance

Not many have seen a launch from 40,000 feet

I've heard an AS pilot point out a mid-air refueling taking place over SoCal.